
				BattleTech
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The year is 3030. The great human StarLeague under the leadership of the First Lord
has been destroyed more than 250 years ago through intrigue, betrayal and civil war.
In the successive wars (not to say: in the Succession Wars) 5 ruling Houses battle
for power and the title of First Lord.
The first of these wars destroyed vital industrial facilities, one of those the
spaceship-yards. The second Succession War was fought for still operational industrial
bases, and for the scientists and technicians, who understood and knew repair them.
By the end of this second war, the 5 Successor States had bombed each other to an
overall level of technological knowledge barely above that of Earth in the early
21th century.
After a brief respite, in which the Warlords of the Successor States began to cannibalize
existing equipment for the spare parts to keep their curent war machines in working order,
the Third Succession War erupted. In the years that followed, war became such a fact of
everyday life that contemporary chronicles refer to the period simply as "the Succession
Wars".
A second outgrowth of the destructiveness of the Succession Wars was the rise of feudalism
throughout the Inner Sphere. The central governments of the ruling Houses no longer
possessed either the administrative machinery or absolute military resources to maintain
centralized control over their territories. Instead, each Warlord ruled a hierarchy of
planetary nobles (often drawn from the leadership of his most elite Mech units),
awarding them full authority over worlds in exchange for the pledged service of their
BatleMechs.

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